My Tips for HEALTHY Weight Loss

Tip 1: How Much weight do you want to lose? Decide now - Most people start their weight loss journey by claiming to be xyz Pounds overweight. Its not a healthy way to project or aim for weight loss. Calculate your desired weight for your height(easily done online) and set a healthy weight loss target. Often half the battle is won by setting realistic goals.

Tip 2: Manage you time - This is important and is often overlooked. Which part of your day will be dedicated to exercise? Set up a realistic time frame to do this. When will you grocery shop? When you will do the cooking? set these all up within your normal everyday routine. You don't want your days and routine rushed and unplanned, that will get you nowhere and you won't be able to sustain your weight loss efforts.

Tip 3: Stock your kitchen. Stock things like with fruits, vegetables, healthy meats, grains, cereals, spices, and flavorings you like. Use healthy cooking! Cook vegetables for the week, Try to use low-fat cooking, many great recipes are online, just Google healthy recipes. To understand how best you can stock your kitchen with healthy and delicious ingredients, plan your meals for the week and shop for those items.

Tip 4: Eat healthy homecooked meals - Whether it's you who's cooking, a family member, every one has to practice healthy cooking methods, and use healthy ingredients. Any person who's lost weight the healthy way, will tell you how healthy homecooked meals were the reason it worked. Use healthy lean meats (lamb, chicken etc), Use less oil, low salt, fresh produce and fruits. Without these, you will see little results.

Tip 5: A healthy weight loss program is not complete without a good exercise routine. Weight training mixed with cardio is a great way to lose weight. Any workout that you are able to do will help you. If you are physically able, stress on muscle tone and increased heart rate (cardio). This will help you lose weight and keep it off. It doesn't matter if you work out at home, or go to a gym, just do it - the results you will see are well worth it.

Tip 6: Snacking habits, these are probably one of the most important things to change. Choose healthy snacks, celery, carrot sticks, low fat cheeses, lowfat yogurts, fruits, and juices are some examples. Set those French fries aside, get rid of the soda and sugary drinks. Ban those unhealthy deep fried foods, cakes, candies and sugary snacks, remove them from the home! Explore the healthy snack world! Go online, you will find tons appetisers, snacks, meal accompaniments, even movie going and Party snacks that'll satisfy every craving.

Tip 7: Have ACTIVE Hobbies! Just 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity per day isn't sufficient. And moving from bed to chair, to couch, to dining table, and back to bed is not a healthy way to live. Try a Wii or motion sensor type gaming console that lets you enjoy active fun games with friends and family. Plan weekend trips, dance, play sports, the list is endless. Get out of the rut you are in, and you'll have fun as well as losing weight.Do these things and you will lose weight.

Happy Weight Loss Everyone.

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Losing Weight the Healthy Way

Almost 108 million Americans were overweight or obese in 1999. Until now, obesity continues to be a serious problem and is predicted to reach epidemic levels by the year 2020.

One way to prevent this scenario is to make people aware of the risks of being overweight or obese.

Here are some diseases that you are putting yourself in risk of if you are carrying a lot of extra pounds:

1. heart disease
2. stroke
3. diabetes
4. cancer
5. arthritis
6. hypertension

Losing weight helps to prevent and control these diseases.

The quick weight loss methods which have spread like fire these days do not provide lasting results. More often than not, dieting methods which involve dietary drinks, foods and supplement or  pills do not work. If they do, the results are just temporary.

It is better to rely on a healthy weight loss option which will provide lifetime results. You have to set realistic goals and not expect to lose a lot of pounds in a short span of time. 

Here are some tips on how you can lose those unwanted pounds the healthy way:

1.   Do not starve your self.

The key to a healthier way of losing weight is: Do not diet.

You may seem happy and feel that you are losing those unwanted flabs on your belly and thighs by skipping meals. But remember that this would not last long. Your body cannot tolerate having insufficient food to fuel the energy that you use up everyday.

If you get used to skipping one or two meals a day, your stored calories will be used up instead of the energy that should have been provided by your meals. So if you just eat one huge sandwich in one day, it will end up straight to your problem area (i.e. highs, buttocks, hips).

2.  Start your day right.

Mothers always say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Have a healthy meal in the morning to jump-start your metabolism.

Your food intake after you wake up will be used to burn fat all day long.

3.  Eat small, healthy meals frequently.

Five  small-serving snacks per day is better than three hearty meals. Eating more frequently, and in small servings, can prevent over-eating. This will also increase your metabolism and make calories burn faster.

4.  Decide on how much weight you want to lose.

Keep your goals realistic. In the long run, it is virtually impossible for you to lose 40 pounds in 2 weeks. Have a mindset that you want to eat healthy to stay healthy for the rest of your life.

Once you have decided on a weight loss plan or program, stick to it and make sure that you follow your own set of dieting rules. 

5.  Drink lots of water.

Your body needs sufficient water  to burn fat and keep your cells hydrated and healthy.

6.  Avoid too much sugar.

Plan your meals around lots of fruits and vegetables, some bread, rice or pasta for that carbo fix that you need, plus lean  meat and protein rich-foods. Sweets, sodas and pastries should be once-in-a-while indulgences only.

7.  Watch your fat intake.

Fat is not the culprit to being overweight. You need this to keep your weight at the proper level.

There is such a thing as healthy fats. Olive, peanuts and canola oil have them. Tuna, salmon and mackerel have omega-3 fats which is good for the heart. 

8.  Exercise.

Leave your car if  you are only going a few blocks from home, take the stairs instead of the elevator, jog, cycle or  skate. Use these activities and other home chores if you are too lazy to go to the gym and take exercise classes. Make sure that you do this regularly and you will not even notice that you are already shedding pounds with these mundane activities.

It does not matter how much weight you plan or need to lose. What is important is that you set realistic goals for yourself.

Go slow. If you have already lost 5 or 6 pounds, give yourself a break then try to lose the next 5 pounds.

Eat healthy, drink lots of water, have enough sleep and exercise. This will give you a higher chance of losing weight and improving your health, which would result to a new, healthier you.
By Larbi Houmz

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8 Helpful Eating Tips For Jumpstarting a Healthy Diet

Weight Loss Diets, Weight Loss Tips It is impossible to separate your eating from your health and fitness.  The overused, but all too true saying that “You are what you eat” is worth closer inspection.  Most of us want to believe that the high fat, low food value that constitutes the American diet is somehow turned into good fuel for our body.  What have you eaten in the last four days?  Based on what you know about what is good food, what is your score on the quality of food you have eaten in the last week?  Would you describe your diet as “high octane fuel” that your body needs?  Or, is your body having to sift through the debris that you have ingested to find a few worthwhile nutrients?
If you look around when you are driving, food is everywhere.  Most of it is not what our body wants or needs.  No wonder we overeat so often.  Our body is continuing to look for food that has taste and can really satisfy.  The following are a few helpful hints that might help you improve your quality of eating :

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Do not rely on “willpower” to help you make good decisions about eating.When you are really, really hungry, eat the best food for your bodyFiber is as close to a magic bullet as there is to satisfy hungerDrink water when you feel hungryFinish your last meal of the day at least two hours before bedtimeA small breakfast in the morning gives your body a head startThink long term about your weightTry to consume more high volume, low calorie dense foodsDo not rely on “willpower” to help you make good decisions about eating :
Most people have an idea of what eating behavior routinely causes them to overeat.  They lament “I just end up going to the freezer and eating a pint of ice cream.”  If that’s the case get rid of the ice cream.  Throw it in the trash and get it out of the house.  Make it difficult for you to give in to your dietary whims.  Drive an extra couple of blocks to avoid the convenience store you routinely stop to eat at on your way home.  Willpower is overrated.  Arrange your environment so you can be successful with minimal “willpower.”When you are really, really hungry eat the best food for your body : 
Pay attention to this tip because it works.  When I was training for The Ironman, I would train Sunday mornings for 5 hours on the bike.  Then I would go to church and take the family to a Sunday pizza buffet.  I figured I had deserved it; I had burned nearly 4,000 calories.  By the time I reached the buffet, I was starved. Forty five minutes later I had eaten 4,500 calories and I was stuffed.  On my biggest workout of the week, I had eaten more calories than I had burned.  I gained body fat that day.  More interesting, the next Sunday, I started thinking about that buffet an hour before the ride ended.  Each week I could picture that buffet and could not wait to get to my reward for training so hard.  Then it hit me.  I had conditioned myself to obsess on a high calorie dense food.  My mind was conditioned to associate hunger with pizza.  Now I will eat a fruit salad when I come in from a long training session.  Guess what I start craving thirty minutes before the end of my bike ride these days?  Make this “paired association” work for you, not against you.  When you are really hungry, eat something that your body can really use.Fiber is as close to a magic bullet as there is to satisfy hunger. 
Eat foods with high fiber content.  If you are older, you may want to add a fiber supplement with your meals.  You will feel satisfied with less food and even lower the risk of some cancers.Drink water when you feel hungry. 
Thirst is often confused with hunger.  Dehydration is common during the summer.  Try drinking a glass of water, wait for a while and see if you are still hungry.  You may find that a glass of water will be what your body wanted.Finish your last meal of the day at least two hours before bedtime 
Late meals seem to be increasingly common in our fast pace world.  Dinner is bumped back to late in the evening.  Then you end up going to bed before your food has emptied from your stomach.  When you sleep, you do not need many calories.  What can the body do with that late dinner?  You guessed it, the dinner is stored as fat.  Eat earlier and take a fifteen minute walk after dinner.  It is a great time to discuss the day with a significant other.  By the time you get back home your hunger has disappeared.  You have kept yourself from snacking on an additional three or four hundred calories.A small breakfast in the morning gives your body a head start. 
Two to three hundred calories in the morning gives your body a little fuel.  We tend to deplete our glycogen during the night.  A small breakfast is part of a smart balanced diet.  I know people who do not eat anything until lunch, or worse, dinner.  By then they are famished and get out of control at dinner.  They end up eating more than they would have had they eaten three smaller meals.Think long term about your weight. 
We live in a world of immediate gratification.  People often decide they want to lose weight and want to “lose 5 lbs a week”.  They think losing 5-10 lbs/wk is easy; after all they see it on TV all the time.  Let’s look at the math of losing body fat.  One pound of body fat contains about 3,500 calories.  If you burn 500 calories a day more than you eat, every day for a week you will lose one pound of fat per week.  I know that in the beginning you also lose an equal amount of water, so it is possible the scales may show up to four pounds the first week or two.  If you can average one pound of fat per week over a long period of time, you are really doing well; pat yourself on the back!Try to consume more high volume, low calorie dense foods. 
My pizza example above is an example of a high density food.  A typical slice of pizza can have 400 calories.  It is pretty easy to eat 4 slices of pizza and still be hungry.  Four slices at 400 calories is around 1,600 calories.  That is a whole days worth of calories for most of us.  A medium sized apple has about 100 calories.  Can you imagine eating 16 apples in a single meal?  No, you would be full after three apples.  That is the difference between high density foods and low density high volume foods.  Fat has three times as many calories as protein or carbohydrates.  Minimize the fat in your diet.  If you think fatty foods taste better, reread the section above about the food you eat when you are really hungry.  You train yourself to like certain types of foods.  You can retrain your self to eat healthy and never feel deprived.Diet is such a complicated area.  There are a plethora of books about diet and weight loss.  I hope that these few tips will be helpful in getting your diet headed in the right direction, without massive willpower or deprivation.  Eat healthy and enjoy the improved quality of life that comes with your health.

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Eat Healthy using the Diet Program for Reducing Cholesterol Levels and Triglycerides

Many people know that having a higher level of cholesterol in the body isn’t exactly something that’s very good. Nevertheless, even though these people, in general, don’t exactly understand what cholesterol is and what it really gives to one’s state of health. A diet for lowering cholesterol will help though with just a little of effort, know-how as well as planning, you might have a diet that lowers your own cholesterol levels.

Cholesterol is a kind of substance that’s mainly present in foods that contain substantial levels of fat. First thing you could do to lower your cholesterol is to possess a diet plan that helps you lower the level of fat that you simply consume. Doing this is virtually easy and simple to do. Eating reduced amounts of fried along with junk food is an excellent beginning in lowering the level of fat that you consume. Furthermore, be skeptical of meals having red meat like steaks and burgers in addition to a lot of dairy products like ice cream, butter and whole milk. You have to reduce your intake of these foods for your diet to be successful.

Oddly, there is something known as good cholesterol. Just what this substance’s role is that it eliminates the bad cholesterol within your blood; therefore; it is assisting you have a healthier body. The good cholesterol can be combined in your diet plan. This type of cholesterol is found in nuts as well as beans. Legumes can come in the form of beans, peanuts and green peas. All these foods can in fact improve one’s health just by consuming them. However, just like any other diet, you need to eat them in moderation.

This diet that you are going to have needs to be made up of foods that have very little to no cholesterol whatsoever. Having one that contains fruits and vegetables is an excellent choice, particularly if you actually want to lower your body’s cholesterol levels. In addition to that, it ought to be coupled with an increase in your exercise activity for that cholesterol to genuinely be lowered.

A special diet for lowering cholesterol is indeed a very important part of the lifestyle change that you would like to build, regardless of your age or your health. Having high cholesterol isn’t something you will need to live with and may thus be completely prevented. High cholesterol can lead to some real health hazards such as cardiac arrest, cerebral vascular accidents and even fatality. Trying to find a diet for lowering your cholesterol could help in letting you live a happier, healthier and long life.

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Healthy Weightloss Products: The Better Alternative

Indulgences, the expansion of fast-food chains and busy and straightforward life-styles have all made a contribution to the uncontrollable problem of unhealthy weight gain. Society has also outlined beauty as being boney and thin. It is no surprise that ladies from all ages are all clamoring for a magic formula which should instantly make them lose weight. Makers of weightloss products, regardless of the efficacy of the medicine, weight loss supplements, protein powder or magic potion, have made money on sales.

Indeed, plenty of girls have fallen prey to the guarantees and miraculous allegations of some unfair makers and businessmen. Taking weight loss products without first knowing the contents of the product and visiting a doctor can be a complete waste of time and money. In worst cases, patients can suffer from the complications of the drugs. This doesn’t mean that we should stop taking measures to reach a more desired weight however. Excess kilos in the body are dangerous to our health, so we have to try our best to maintain our right body mass index.

Fortunately , there are more alternatives that may help us lose weight more naturally. It would help if you consult with an approved nutrition expert for nutrition management. They might design nutrition programs appropriate to each and every patient. Pro nutrition experts would know precisely what you want and will provide you with shown to be effective and healthy weight loss products and nutritional supplements. They can also recommend fitness professionals that may lead you on your complete weight loss program.

We also have not to forget that we didn’t gain our present weight in a week or in a month. It probably took years of eating in fast-food bistros and watching TV or surfing the internet before we ballooned to what we are now. Therefore do not be stunned and deterred if losing those same pounds might also take you that much time.

No wondrous weightloss products can straight away banish the fat. with proper weight management, unceasing exercise and limiting yourself to health and nutritional products, a fit and healthy body couldn’t be that far off.

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Adding Salmon Fish In Your Diet For Healthy Living

Reducing your weight by which includes salmon in your diet isn’t only an ideal way to shed pounds; it is also a healthy way to lose weight. Salmon fish has a couple of calories when it’s cooked with out high calorie contents, so you should prepare salmon with that consideration in mind if you’re going on a diet. Shed weight with salmon fish and obtain the omega-3 essential fatty acid health benefits this fish is offering, together with protein, niacin, vitamin B12 and selenium.

Wild salmon fish is found in its native environment. The toxic level is higher in the less-healthy farm-raised salmon. The nutrient content in salmon fish is concentrated and offers several benefits for weight reduction. A half-filet portion of salmon that weighs 4.4 ounces provides one hundred ninety calories, or 10 percent of a normal 2,000-calorie diet.

An amount of salmon offers fifty percent of the calories of an equivalent-sized serving size of beef tenderloin. Dished up with complementary fennel bulb and citrus, salmon fish is a rich, low-calorie replacement for a higher-calorie slice of animal meat. A 4.4-oz. serving of salmon provides 30.5 g of protein, or 61 percent of the 50 grams. The entire body requires nutritional health proteins for muscle repair and synthesis that is needed after workout. It also moderates carbohydrate digestion. The stability of blood sugar is specifically linked with being overweight prevention.

The overall fat provided in a 4.4-oz. serving size of salmon is 6.6 g, or 10 % of the 65 g Food and drug administration daily value. The saturated fat segment is 1.2 g, or five percent of the 20g Food and drug administration daily limit. Decreasing calorie-dense fat is an effective weight-loss strategy. Which includes at least the daily value is important; the entire body requires mono- and polyunsaturated fats for sustaining mind and cardiovascular health.

Collard veggies or spinach dished up with salmon provide the complementary nutrition. In spite of relatively high fat content, salmon can be an effective section of a diet to lose weight naturally. The truth is, it is because of salmon’s fat composition and omega-3 essential fatty acids that it can be such a very good weight-loss tool. Salmon is reduced in calories and saturated fat. In addition to endorsing weight-loss, salmon can be cooked in a wide range of ways to keep a constantly exciting dinner option. Check out on-line for additional details about salmon fish such as how to fillet a salmon, precisely how to cook salmon, or perhaps check the best way on how to prepare a salmon.

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